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tomsem · 06-10-2015, 06:29 PM

Prime Music app for Fire Phone just got updated (to 4.4.5). It now supports Prime Stations. BUT, it does not support Flip or AutoScroll, as the builtin Music app does.

I keep wondering why FirePhoneOS cannot simply map Flip and Scroll events to swipe-from-left, swipe-from-right, mouse scroll down/up events for apps that don't use Fire Phone APIs directly. Seems like that would work most of the time, and would improve usability overall. Until we have a lot more Fire Phones in circulation, app developers are unlikely to do anything special for them. Of course it would help if Appstore had a way to discover apps that do have special support for Fire Phone.

I'm finally getting better at using Flip/Scroll and I'd like to use those everywhere that it makes sense to do so. For example, it's great that I can get a panel to slide out with Flip. But now I want to have that panel Autoscroll.

I am missing any sort of Goodreads integration, or copy/paste, in the reading app. Goodreads doesn't even appear as one of the Sharing options.

I'm compiling a list of Fire Phone 'improvements' like these...

06-10-2015, 06:29 PM	#520
tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,953 Karma: 27060153 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	Prime Music app for Fire Phone just got updated (to 4.4.5). It now supports Prime Stations. BUT, it does not support Flip or AutoScroll, as the builtin Music app does. I keep wondering why FirePhoneOS cannot simply map Flip and Scroll events to swipe-from-left, swipe-from-right, mouse scroll down/up events for apps that don't use Fire Phone APIs directly. Seems like that would work most of the time, and would improve usability overall. Until we have a lot more Fire Phones in circulation, app developers are unlikely to do anything special for them. Of course it would help if Appstore had a way to discover apps that do have special support for Fire Phone. I'm finally getting better at using Flip/Scroll and I'd like to use those everywhere that it makes sense to do so. For example, it's great that I can get a panel to slide out with Flip. But now I want to have that panel Autoscroll. I am missing any sort of Goodreads integration, or copy/paste, in the reading app. Goodreads doesn't even appear as one of the Sharing options. I'm compiling a list of Fire Phone 'improvements' like these... Last edited by tomsem; 06-10-2015 at 09:54 PM.